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''[[ThePlace The Lakes]]'' was a Creator/{{BBC}} television drama series broadcast in Great Britain from 1997, created and written by Jimmy[= McGovern=]. It ran for two series and fourteen hour-long episodes. The series brought writer Jimmy [=McGovern=] and actor John Simm to public notice, a long time before his tenure on ''Series/DoctorWho''. This show's realistic characters and their painfully honest but flawed decisions hit audiences hard. Simm played Danny Kavanagh, a twenty-something trapped in a life of compulsive gambling, theft, and being on the dole in [[OopNorth Liverpool]]. On a whim he heads north to the Lake District. He expects to find countryside quiet where he might contemplate his life and explore his hidden poetical leanings. However, he is soon embroiled in a rural community with a lot of dark secrets and hidden skeletons to conceal.He discovers a web of lies, temptations, human failings and tragedy beset every household. Danny's links to the Lakes becomes an exercise in torment when he is suspected after the accidental deaths of three schoolgirls. A whole lot of subplots involve affairs, some adulterous, others complicated by religion.

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''[[ThePlace The Lakes]]'' was a Creator/{{BBC}} television drama series SundayEveningDramaSeries broadcast in Great Britain from 1997, created and written by Jimmy[= McGovern=]. It ran for two series and fourteen hour-long episodes. The series brought writer Jimmy [=McGovern=] and actor John Simm to public notice, a long time before his tenure on ''Series/DoctorWho''. This show's realistic characters and their painfully honest but flawed decisions hit audiences hard. Simm played Danny Kavanagh, a twenty-something trapped in a life of compulsive gambling, theft, and being on the dole in [[OopNorth Liverpool]]. On a whim he heads north to the Lake District. He expects to find countryside quiet where he might contemplate his life and explore his hidden poetical leanings. However, he is soon embroiled in a rural community with a lot of dark secrets and hidden skeletons to conceal.He discovers a web of lies, temptations, human failings and tragedy beset every household. Danny's links to the Lakes becomes an exercise in torment when he is suspected after the accidental deaths of three schoolgirls. A whole lot of subplots involve affairs, some adulterous, others complicated by religion.
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%%** [[spoiler:Simone]].** Simone, who could be described as a higher-functioning version of Lucy: she despises and belittles her husband, has affairs to humiliate him, and has even alienated her own family - her sister Beverley loathes her for her behaviour.
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Lucy Archer. She's a spoilt brat from a very affluent family and her personality is neither sympathetic nor loving. While nobody can help what they're born into, the fact she flaunts her affluence in a town where the majority are hard-up or actually struggling can only cause resentment. The fact many of those people are dependent on her parents for employment (at the local hotel) precludes [[LaserGuidedKarma retaliation]].
* CampbellCountry: The small-town claustrophobia of the Cumbrian rural community, a long way away from the nearest town of any size and an even longer distance to [[UsefulNotes/{{Glasgow}} the nearest city]] - which is technically in [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} a different ''country'']].

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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Lucy Archer. She's a spoilt brat from a very affluent family and her personality is neither sympathetic nor loving. While nobody can help what they're born into, the fact she flaunts her affluence in a town where the majority are hard-up or actually struggling can only cause resentment. The fact many of those people are dependent on her parents for employment (at the local hotel) precludes [[LaserGuidedKarma retaliation]].
* CampbellCountry: The small-town claustrophobia of the Cumbrian rural community, a long way away from the nearest town of any size and an even longer distance to [[UsefulNotes/{{Glasgow}} [[UsefulNotes/{{Glasgow}} the nearest city]] - which is technically in [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} a different ''country'']].country]].
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%%* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Lucy Archer. The second series delves much more deeply into exactly why this is.
%%* CampbellCountry: The small-town claustrophobia of the Cumbrian rural community.

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%%* * BrattyTeenageDaughter: Lucy Archer. She's a spoilt brat from a very affluent family and her personality is neither sympathetic nor loving. While nobody can help what they're born into, the fact she flaunts her affluence in a town where the majority are hard-up or actually struggling can only cause resentment. The second series delves much more deeply into exactly why this is.
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fact many of those people are dependent on her parents for employment (at the local hotel) precludes [[LaserGuidedKarma retaliation]].
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CampbellCountry: The small-town claustrophobia of the Cumbrian rural community.community, a long way away from the nearest town of any size and an even longer distance to [[UsefulNotes/{{Glasgow}} the nearest city]] - which is technically in [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} a different ''country'']].

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